Virtual memory

[24giovanni]

Hi, I am trying to open MS Outlook but when I try to I am getting the following error

"virtual memory too low. Windows is increasing virtual memory paging file" but everytime I try rebooting and opening it again, it still happens. I am using XP os. how can I fix this please? I appreciate any help.

tia

mine is set up as initial size of 432 and max of 864. Do I increase initial? If so, what should i set it to please?

[glc]

How much physical ram do you have and how much free hard drive space? What version of Windows?

[24giovanni]

288 MB of RAM 1GB free on HD win XP PRO

[cmillar6]

288MB of RAM for Windows XP is insufficient, upgrade to at least 512. You will also want to free up some space on your harddrive or upgrade to a hardrive with a larger capacity.

[glc]

With that little free space, the hard drive is probably so fragmented the swapfile can't resize itself and you can't defrag it either.

[old dog 2]

I am having the same message. I was searching for an answer. I am running xp home. I have 736 mb of ram, a 76.3 gb hd with 49.9 gb free. So why do you think I am getting the message.

[oreilly]

I am having the same message. I was searching for an answer. I am running xp home. I have 736 mb of ram, a 76.3 gb hd with 49.9 gb free. So why do you think I am getting the message.
puzzeling
i don't know if u have windows running your pagefile memory but try letting windows running pagefile memory

[glc]

736 ram?

1. Download and install Crap Cleaner and clean out all your junk with it and clean the registry with it.

2. Set it to NO pagefile, reboot.

3. Defrag.

4. Set the pagefile to 2208 initial and maximum.

[old dog 2]

OK I went to "download.com" and found CCleaner. Is that the one you mention? Anyway I deleted all the cookies and stuff. Then I clicked on the "issues" button and over 500 of them came up. There is a button to "fix selected issues". I really don't know if I should do that or not. I feel like I am in over my head please advice.

[glc]

Fix them. It will let you back up the changes. Keep running till there are no more issues, it will probably take 3 or 4 passes. Do each pass at least 1 minute apart.

[24giovanni]

GLC, I defragged my hard drive with diskeeper lite and free up some hardware space to 1.33 GB of free space but I am still having the same issue. What else can I do please?

[glc]

Follow the procedure in my post #8, but use 864 initial and max. 1.33 gb is still not much space to play with. How large is the partition? Do you have any other partitions, and how big are they with how much free space?

[24giovanni]

GLC, I ran it and it says it is completed so now what do I do with the output from it. After running that I am down to 725MB. total drive size is 6GB no other partitions

[glc]

That's too small a hard drive to be running XP on. I'd upgrade the drive, and get more ram too.

[24giovanni]

yes, but before i ran ccleaner I had 1.33GB of free space and now I only have 735 MB where did it all go?

[glc]

Disable system restore.